While the whole exchange must’ve sucked for them, I’ve found their reaction extremely amusing at times, especially the carpet banning for life of everyone within a country/state to the offending party. But hey, that’ll definitely show AMD how to hire those coreboot developers
Do they expect someone to work at cost for them? Running a company has overhead.
It sounds like they know what the code should do generally, but either didn’t design it to be debuggable or have no idea what they are doing.
Everyone has their own way of doing things and when you commit you need to make sure you deliver a quality product.
Bug hunting sucks, especially with other people’s design.
lol at blacklisting AMD because one of their 25k employees politely decided you weren’t worth contracting with after you very probably went raving jackass on them.
so… no shipping to two countries and one big-ass state, and no AMD in their device anymore? they sure now how to make their devices easier to sell, lmao.
Ahhh. Not just one state anymore. The principal developer from System76 got Colorado banned now as well. Lol
I feel dumber having read that.
Banning a whole country because you disliked a company?
Dealing with stuff that’s ‘almost working’ is often harder than starting from scratch; ask any tradesperson.
They also apparently cannot get their heads around the fact that people might give you a discount if you advertise their brand. Ad-supported pricing has been around for a long time; it’s not some voodoo.
They complain about unprofessional communications then fill this article with whining like this:
Weeks elapsed with little to no activity, because they were super busy pretending to be doing something else out in the abyss of phantom world.
And they never seem to consider that maybe their own code wasn’t as great as they thought. If they can’t “just debug” it themselves, maybe there’s a difficult problem with it?
They paint themselves as an arrogant and problematic client to deal with.
Huh, apparently they sometimes behave like that with customers as well: https://lemmy.ml/comment/14451901
Based on everything we learned about coreboot, we think you can port a laptop board in 40 hours or less. There are tools that you can use to dump most of the code you need. For instance, the GPIO can be done in 30 minutes, as opposed to the 30-50 hours that was quoted by several developers.
OK, so why didn’t you just port it yourself in 40 hours? Apparently it’s super easy.
Jeez as someone who’s done a lot of contracting/consulting work I can hear this guy in a LOT of prior clients.
You know, the ones that would get F-U pricing or fired shortly after starting work and more often than not end up in court over me not getting paid.
They don’t present a sane, rational, normal, competent, functional business aura so much as a whiny petulant little child that wants it all nooooow, and doesn’t get that hiring someone means you get some of their time, not 80 hour weeks until your “just debugging” is done.
Also it’s never just debugging, because if it was a developer who COULD do it building it, then it’s a developer who is good enough to debug it too. If they can’t debug it, then they almost certainly don’t have the skills to actually do the project in the first place but I digress.